Momentum Building For Cyber Strategy
The Obama administration could ask Congress for regulatory changes to create "far-reaching incentives" for prioritizing cybersecurity in the private sector, which controls much of the nation's critical IT infrastructure, a high-ranking Department of Homeland Security official said Thursday. Acting Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications Michael Brown said a range of proposals are being considered by the White House and the department as their cybersecurity plan unfolds. The department is moving quickly to ramp up its cyber processes, Brown told an Armed Forces Communication & Electronics Association conference. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's selection of under secretary Philip Reitinger to head the National Cybersecurity Center this month, was another step forward, he said. Read the full story in CongressDaily's AM Edition here (subscription required).
In related news, Reitinger spoke about cybersecurity to a standing-room-only crowd at Google's Washington office on Friday. He was joined by Senate Commerce Committee Chief of Staff Ellen Doneski; TechAmerica Vice President Liesyl Franz; Defense Information Systems Agency Chief Information Assurance Executive Richard Hale; and Christopher Painter, director of cybersecurity for the National Security Council.
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